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Title
Date(s)
- [1856x1935]. (Creation)
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Extent and medium
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mrs H. E. Jones; Bethesda; Donation; 1936
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A group of holograph letters and postcards from the collection of, and mainly addressed to, John Jones, J.P., bookseller, Bethesda. The writers include J. N. Crowther ('Glanceri'), 1906-1922; [Richard Davies] ('Mynyddog'), undated; Owen Evans, Liscard, 1913; Dame M[argaret] Lloyd George, Criccieth, to H. E. Jones, Bethesda [1935]; H[ugh] D[erfel] Hughes, 1864; Rhys J. Huws, Staylittle, 1906; [John Jones] ('Mathetes'), Llangollen, 1858; L. D. Jones ('Llew Tegid'), Bangor, 1904-1917; [Sir] Hugh Owen, London, 1878; W. J. Parry, Bethesda, etc., 1898-1899; John H. Roberts, Liverpool; [Samuel Roberts] ('S.R.'), Conway, 1882; [John Thomas] ('Eifionydd'), 1904; and Henry J. Wilson, House of Commons, 1904. Also included in the group are an English translation of a letter from John Jones to his mother, 1864, and an incomplete address by W. Jones on Sunday School instruction, 1858.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- Welsh
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh, English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XIX, 254-5.
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Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
The original letter (see 520), 1864, from John Jones to his mother was published in Y Cronicl, 1864, pp. 75-6.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 10845C.
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Access points
Subject access points
- Welsh -- United States -- Correspondence
- Welsh -- England -- Correspondence
- Baptists -- England -- Liverpool.
- Congregationalists -- Wales -- Caernarvonshire.
- Congregationalists -- Wales -- Liverpool.
- Calvinistic Methodists -- England -- Liverpool.
- Congregationalists -- England -- Manchester.
- Congregationalists -- Wales -- Flint
- Sunday schools -- Teaching.
- Bethesda (Gwynedd, Wales)
- Wales -- Emigration and immigration.
- United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Place access points
Name access points
- Jones, John, bookseller, Bethesda (Caernarvonshire) -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Jones, John, bookseller, Bethesda (Caernarvonshire) (Subject)
- Llew Tegid, 1851-1928 (Subject)
- Crowther, J. N. (John Newton), 1847-1928 (Subject)
- Mynyddog, 1833-1877 (Subject)
- Evans, Owen, 1829-1920 (Subject)
- Jones, H. E., Bethesda (Caernarvonshire) (Subject)
- Hughes, Hugh Derfel, 1816-1890 (Subject)
- Huws, Rhys J. (Rhys Jones), 1862-1917 (Subject)
- Jones, J. (John), 1821-1878 (Subject)
- Owen, Hugh, 1804-1881 (Subject)
- Parry, W. J. (William John), 1842-1927 (Subject)
- Roberts, J. H. (John Henry), Pencerdd Gwynedd, 1848-1924 (Subject)
- Roberts, Samuel, 1800-1885 (Subject)
- Eifionydd, 1848-1922 (Subject)
- Wilson, Henry Joseph, 1833-1914 (Subject)
- Jones, W., fl. 1858 (Subject)
- Lloyd George, Margaret, 1866-1941 (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
October 2008.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961); Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940 (Llundain, 1953); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on-line;